Try Partition Magic. It will convert it back for you.
Kitt
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sheahan [SMTP:pesheah@peoples.com]
Sent: Monday, June 29, 1998 1:27 PM
To: ntisp@iea-software.com
Subject: Re: NT on drive > 2gig?
After I sent my reply I realized that is exactly what my problem is! All my
drives are Fat32. Dammit!
Does a utility exist to convert back to Fat16 from Fat32?
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Lachance <richard@vircom.com>
To: ntisp@iea-software.com <ntisp@iea-software.com>
Date: Monday, June 29, 1998 2:16 PM
Subject: RE: NT on drive > 2gig?
>> My goal is to install Windows NT on the primary drive of my secondary IDE
>> controller (the 2 gig Maxtor drive). I just happen to be running
>> Windows 98
>> on my 4 gig boot drive and plan to dual boot each OS. I am also
>> NOT going to
>> use NTFS, as I don't need the security features right now.
>>
>> Why can't I just install NT on the 2 gig drive on the secondary IDE
>> controller, and leave my 4 gig boot drive as is (running Win98)?
>
>Sure. It is possible that the boot.ini file (hidden system file on your 4G
>partition used by the NT loader) may be confused though. It should
probably
>look something like this:
>
>[boot loader]
>timeout=5
>default=multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
>[operating systems]
>multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00"
>multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.00
>[VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
>C:\="Microsoft Windows"
>
>In theory, this should boot on the first partition of the second disk. Of
>note, NT4 cannot handle FAT32 disk partitions - that may be where your
>problem is...
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Richard.
>Vircom, Inc.
>
>
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